strategy
Complex or Complicated?
Complex or complicated? Which term better describes what you and your community or organization is facing? Rocket science is complicated. Addressing the opioid crisis is complex. Reducing vehicle emissions by 10% is complicated. Addressing climate change is complex. Complex challenges demand new approaches to strategy and the science of collaboration becomes extremely important. That’s where…
Strategy Is a Team Sport
One of the theories embedded within our approach to strategy at the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab is the Law of Requisite Variety introduced by W. Ross Ashby. The idea is that a complex challenge (one with a lot of variety) requires a solution that is equally complex, a solution with a lot of variety. That’s why we focus on…